Shariah In New Jersey: Muslim Husband Rapes And Abuses Wife, Judge Initially Considered Actions In Accordance With Islam

This is an update on this appalling story from New Jersey, USA.

The account of abuse from the victim is extremely graphic. The contact information for Judge Edith K. Payne, a female judge, is included below for readers who would like to express their dismay.

From The Liberal Heretic:

Hold onto your hats folks. This one is going to have you spitting nails.

On July 31, 2008, two Moroccans, referred as S.D. (wife) and M.J.R. (husband) were married in [Morocco]. It was an arranged marriage, with the bride being only 17 years old. A month later, this couple moved to New Jersey when MJR was employed as an accountant, settling in the town of Bayonne. Within a month, the husband's mother joined the couple.

The abuse of the young bride began on or about November of the same year.

Being so young, she didn't know how to cook, so when her husband demanded that she prepare three Moroccan dishes for his six honored guests, she was incapable, although she tried. When the husband saw that his wife didn't prepare the food, he told her later she would be punished. She was told to go to her room, and await her husband. When he came, he began pinching her all over her body, and the abuse continued for more than an hour, while she cried and begged him to stop.

"At that time I was sitting in my room. I was afraid. I was afraid, what is he going to do to me? So I started to read some of our holy book the Koran and the visitors left around 10 o'clock a.m. and he said to me, now I'm going to start punishing you. So he started to pinch me all over my body. He would go - the pinching he would do it like a sensation with his fingers over circulation in my flesh, then he'd pull his fingers out. I felt he was enjoying hurting me." When asked to describe specifically where defendant was pinching, plaintiff responded that the pinching took place on her breasts, under her arms, and around her thighs; that the pinches left bruises; and that some of the bruises remained at the time that a detective from the Hudson County Prosecutor's office took pictures of her body on November 22, 2008.

She was told by her husband he was doing this to correct her.

Another episode [occurred] November 16, 2008. The wife shoved some papers on the floor:

"When he came in and he saw everything on the floor - so he entered and he came toward me and he took all my clothes off me. It was very cold day. I had two pants on. He said, what, you think you're going to escape my punishment to you? Let's see what we're going to do now. After that he took off all my clothes and he said the first - before we start punishing you, now you're nude. You have no clothes on. Even my underwear wasn't on. So I felt I was an animal, like an animal. So he said first of all, you better go and pick [up] everything from the floor. Then he said, now we're going to start punishing you. Then he started to pinch my private area. And he was pinching my tits or my chest area. I was crying."

SD stated her vaginal area was very, very red and it was hurting. When she attempted to leave, the husband told her: " no, you can not go and sleep on the side of the bed. You're still my wife and you must do whatever I tell you to do. I want to hurt your flesh, I want to feel and know that you're still my wife. After that - he had sex with me and my vagina was very, very swollen and I was hurting so bad."

Asked by the judge (during a hearing for a restraining order) if she told her husband she did not want to have sex, she replied: "Of course, because I was - I had so much pain down there."

He raped her again on November 22, 2008, and again when their Imam ordered her to return to him after he beat and raped her previously. In all, this young girl was raped on an almost daily basis.

When she sought the restaining order after their divorce, a New Jersey judge ruled that the husband did nothing wrong, because he was only following his religion, Islam.

"This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited."

Thankfully, this decision was immediately overturned.

"As the judge recognized, the case thus presents a conflict between the criminal law and religious precepts. In resolving this conflict, the judge determined to except defendant from the operation of the State's statutes as the result of his religious beliefs. In doing so, the judge was mistaken."

Court documents can be read here....

Judge Payne's contact info is:
Suite 1101, North Tower
Morristown, 07960-3965 Phone: 973-631-6365, 6366
158 Headquarters Plaza